Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fish ? species un known ? was 20 ft. long, he estimated, and garlanded with lights like an excursion boat. The lights, he guessed, were phosphorescent parasites. Mr. Barton tried to photograph the creature but had almost no time to focus his camera. The film when developed was dismally blank...
Into the soft summer mists that creep up Long Island Sound from the Atlantic 29 small yachts disappeared last fortnight off New London. Last week Bermudians saw them emerge from the blue blank of ocean, swinging up, one by one, over the hot horizon toward St. David's Head. First boat to cross the finish line in the 650-mile race from New London to Bermuda was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Vadim Stefan Makaroff. On corrected time. Vamarie was beaten by a three-week-old sloop that finished five hours later, Rudolph J. Schaefer's Edlu...
...collected edition. Still an active playwright though no longer the champion sculler he was, Shaw in his time has rowed nearly every position in the boat. He has written novels, music criticism, book reviews, theatre criticism, essays, short stories, speeches, pamphlets (of tremendous length), even- though not very seriously-blank verse...
...they stand twice a week around President Roosevelt's desk, prodding him with questions, hoping for newsmaking answers. Correspondent Blair Moody of the Detroit News asked whether the President had any comment to make about accusations against the Collector of Internal Revenue for Michigan. The President looked blank, asked for details. After hearing them he frowned, ground out his cigaret. said that if such things were true they would have to end immediately. Next day agents of the Treasury Department turned up in Detroit. Three days later Secretary Morgenthau emerged from the White House to announce that Collector...
Last week the American Banker discovered that so many bankers had fallen for this old racket that it published a warning editorial of nearly three columns. For U. S. bankers big & little its homely advice was: "Do not sign any blank unless you understand thoroughly every word...